1John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 30 June 1787 (Adams Papers)
, 1786–1787, p. 539–540; Robert A. Feer, Shay’s Rebellion, N.Y., 1988, p. 410).
2Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 30 June 1787 (Adams Papers)
pardoned by Gov. John Hancock on 13 Sept. (Robert A. Feer, Shay’s Rebellion, N.Y., 1988, p. 416; Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle
3To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 11 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
Richards, Shays’s Rebellion
4To John Adams from Charles Storer, 16 September 1786 (Adams Papers)
Richards, Shays’s RebellionRichards, Shays’s Rebellion
5To John Adams from Benjamin Hitchborn, 16 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
Richards, Shays’s Rebellion
6To John Adams from Philip Mazzei, 7 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
...to go back under British rule and say they would refuse to grant such a request; this statement is denied by British subjects in America. The general opinion in Massachusetts is that these maneuvers had much to do with Shay’s Rebellion.” He described Americans’ surprise at the Shaysite ringleaders’ pardon, and he concluded that “calm has been restored” (Philip Mazzei,
7To John Adams from Robert Treat Paine, 13 April 1789 (Adams Papers)
Richards, Shays’s Rebellion
8From John Jay to John Adams, 1 November 1786 (Jay Papers)
On Shays’s Rebellion, which began on 15 Aug. 1786 and was not completely suppressed until the spring of 1787, see note 8, below.